[Python-Dev] Consolidate stateful runtime globals (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Thu Sep 7 14:08:41 EDT 2017


Is there any issue with unit-at-a-time optimization? I would imagine that a static global would allow optimizations that are not safe for a exported global (not sure the C term for it).

I suspect it doesn't matter and I support the idea in general. Global variables in extension modules kills the idea of a mark-and-sweap or some other GC mechanism. That's probably not going to happen but identifying all of the global state seems like a step forward.



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